Joe Stewart’s thorough deconstruction of Sarah Palin began with, “It’s Sarah Palin hosting the Today show and she was there performing a medley of her greatest hits from I don’t read newspapers to I write on my hand to that old chestnut I passively aggressively hate Matt Lauer with every ounce of my being.”

Stewart then discussed the fraud behind Sarah Palin’s parasitic relationship with the media that she claims to hate, “So here’s the thing, the former Alaska governor was actually quite good and likable in this setting. My issue was not with how I viewed Governor Palin as co-host of the Today show. It was with how Governor Palin seemed to view it… Ooh, infiltrating the Today show. I think it means you’re cynically exploiting a manufactured notion of yourself as a crusader against a monolithic exclusionary activist liberal media, whilst actually enjoying a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with them only to the detriment of the rest of the country.”

The Daily Show host took Palin’s image as a conservative crusader apart, “Seriously, seriously, it’s The Today Show. Do you really believe that co-hosting The Today Show is entering the lion’s den armed only with some Jesus fish earrings and an Iwo Jima sized flag pin? Seriously, look at that f**king flag pin. If a hamster went to the moon that is the flag it would plant. That thing’s gigantic. But Governor Palin acts like she needs to protect herself from the lamestream liberals, like garlic to a vampire, when the truth is you’re at The Today Show. You’re there to talk about party planning with Tori Spelling. To pretend that you remember who Wilson Phillips is, or to hang out with some light hearted couch banter with Matt and Ann and Al instead of acting like you’re setting with Che and Lenin and Saul Alinsky. It’s just another place for you tout your brand of homespun nonsense unchallenged.”

Almost as a public service, Stewart tried to explain to Palin why most of America can’t stand her, “But if you really want to know why some people are kind of infuriated with you, it’s not your common sense conservatism, or your Mama Grizzly tenacity. It’s the casual manner with which you accuse everybody you disagree with of dividing America while you casually and simultaneously do this.”

(Clip of Palin answering a question about Oprah)

Stewart concluded, “In a nutshell the simplicity and prejudice of your worldview is that the patriotism and goodness of something is in direct proportion only to the amount of conservatism in said thing, and that equation so rules your life that you offered that advice spontaneously to the question of how do think Oprah’s doing? I’ve gotta tell ya lady. That must be exhausting to live like that. Although liberals who are patriots, it is pretty funny.”

I guess some people can’t stand Palin because of her inability to see the world through anything but her Fox News tinted glasses, but the contempt for Sarah Palin goes so much deeper than that. A pseudo-political celebrity doesn’t earn a 60% unfavorable rating without there being more to the story. Jon Stewart doesn’t understand that the dislike of Sarah Palin is almost visceral. Stewart’s problem with Palin is that she is partisan and divisive, but there is so much more to dislike.

Never has a person who is so disliked gotten so much for doing so little. Sarah Palin made herself irrelevant by quitting on Alaska, but yet she is still trying to hang on to those last few shreds of fame that she has left. Her only claim to national political celebrity will be completely gone when Mitt Romney chooses his running mate this summer. Sarah Palin knows the fame train is heading for the last stop, but she isn’t ready to get off yet. Sarah Palin is the person who loses at everything, but still thinks she’s a winner.

Sarah Palin agreed to do Today for the same reason that she finally agreed to speak at CPAC for free. She needs the attention, and this is all she can get. In less than four years, Sarah Palin has gone from being her party’s vice presidential nominee to clubbing fish on reality television to rehashing her greatest hits as comedic bits on Today. Sarah PAC’s fundraising has completely cratered, and as of January had made fewer political contributions (1) than $600 steak dinners that it paid for (2).

Now that she is done morning television, Sarah Palin has taken another step closer to fulfilling her washed up D-list celebrity destiny of being a late night TV infomercial star.

Jon Stewart did a great job at exposing the self-serving side of Sarah Palin’s media crusader myth, but he really doesn’t get what makes her tick. Sarah Palin is a fame parasite, who refuses to see that America is thoroughly sick of her. She is the movie that is always on that nobody wants to see. She is the bad date who won’t stop calling.

America wants to break up but she won’t take the hint and leave us alone, which is exactly why we can’t stand Sarah Palin. It might have been fun for a minute in 2008, but it’s over, Sarah. Here’s your stuff back. Now please move on, because we already have.

Jon Stewart Sharpens the Knives and Takes Down Sarah Palin was written by Jason Easley for PoliticusUSA.

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24 Responses to Jon Stewart Sharpens the Knives and Takes Down Sarah Palin

Ingarose

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 10:36 am

There is just something about her that drives people nuts. She went right over to Fox with Hannity, more or less complaining about the ‘lamestream’ media. It really serves the ‘Today’ show right for inviting her the first time.

I am not so sure about her going away. How many times have people said that this was the end of Sarah, yet she keeps popping up again and again and the media falls for it again and again.

MollyD

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 10:37 am

Can we get a restraining order?

Shiva (Moderator)

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 10:55 am

that is divinely hilarious, the fatcats are profiting from the socialist policies of Obama. Isn’t socialism where the government runs the corporations and is the fatcats?

Mr. Stewart is correct, it must be hell living in her world of patriotism, patriots and conservatism are all one sentence

Jeff R

Fri, Apr 13th, 2012 at 1:56 am

Your statement contains the assertion that Obama’s policies are socialist, which only shows that you have absolutely NO idea what socialism is or even what the word socialist means. I assume you are one of the people who used to call him a socialist, communist, fascist, monarchist… every other mutually exclusive epithet you had recently heard someone who has labeled themselves “conservative”, BECAUSE you truly have not idea what that word, along with all the other words, mean.

Obama has proven with his actions as president that he does not have a socialist thought or impulse in his head or he would not have bailed out the financiers who almost murdered our economy because their greed murdered their patriotism.

Shiva (Moderator)

Fri, Apr 13th, 2012 at 9:54 am

But then again,You might read that posting as being sarcasm

terri E

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 11:52 am

the woman is a walking, talking, self-parody.

Anklejive

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 12:30 pm

While funny, it’s too bad he wasted time on the half-term governor and completely ignored the awesome speech the President gave on the Ryan/GOP budget at the Associated Press Luncheon yesterday.

John of Indiana

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 12:49 pm

Her popularity is still mostly due to Tebagger Murrika’s desire to sexually humiliate themselves with her.
They DREAM about her. Ceaselessly.

Morgan Sheridan

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 1:09 pm

I am sick to death of the lie putting forth the notion that only conservatives are patriotic Americans.

Moongal6

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 6:06 pm

Hear, hear.
Well done.

zumpie

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 1:18 pm

If anything, Jon was being nice—I briefly clicked over and they were all out on the plaza. Palin was like 10 feet away from everyone else—Matt had to pull her in, on camera, because she looked so completely awkward and ridiculous.

Who even does that? I could only think she wanted to give her even huger than the pin scarf plenty of flowing room! Or the more obvious, when the cameras weren’t rolling, everyone basically hated her.

Turkey killing aside, you’d think she’d at least have some sense of stage craft after all this time. Although Today and NBC are still trying to pretend it was all just the awesomest awesome, even they know she was a failure.

In other news, couldn’t make it to her mom to daughters segment. Given that her scorecard reads: pregnant teen drop out, property vandalizing, druggy, foul-mouthed bully and snide little shit (who also doubles as Trig’s nanny), I think I’ll stay with raising my daughter heathen style.

And don’t forget, that’s just the girls–Track “shot gun wedding/army or jail” is his OWN catergory!

Pat Padrnos

Wed, Apr 11th, 2012 at 11:17 am

Loved your comment!!
I keep hoping someone will do some work on Shailey Tripp’s book “Boys Will be Boys” that details Todd’s involvement in prostitution in Alaska.

Deborah Montesano

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 1:23 pm

Love Jon Stewart, but even he couldn’t entice me to sit through the grueling experience of watching more Sarah Palin.

Conservative Heart

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 2:19 pm

How f*cking dare anyone out there make fun of [Sarah] after all she has been through?!

She lost her VP race, she went through a divorce from the Republican love affair. She had two f*ckin retarded TV shows.

Her husband turned out to be a loser, a secessionist, and Newt’s about to get his ass kicked and there will be no one who wants her! Also, she’s going through a credibility battle.

All you people care about is…..making money off of her.

SHE’S A HUMAN! What you don’t realize is that [Sarah] is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her.

She hasn’t read notes off her palm in months. Her swan song is called “don’t tax me mre” for a reason because all you people want is MORE! MORE-MORE, MORE: MORE!.

LEAVE HER ALONE! You are lucky she even got dressed and put on her Manolo Blahniks for you BASTARDS!

LEAVE [SARAH] ALONE!…..Please.

“Pundits” yakked about professionalism and said if [Sarah] was a professional she would’ve pulled it off no matter what.

Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional for journalists to ask crazy difficult questions like “what do you read?” Even Steven F*cking Hawkerinski wouldn’t be able to fully answer that tough of a question…

Also, when is it professional for citizens to publicly bash someone who is genuinely, transparently putting all of her hard times on TV for all to see?

Leave [Sarah] Alone Please…. !

Leave [Sarah] alone!…right now!….I mean it!!

Anyone that has a problem with her you deal with me, because she is not well right now.

LEAVE [SARAH] ALONE!

zumpie

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 2:32 pm

Umm, Newt’s ABOUT to get his ass handed to him? Hasn’t he pretty much been holding it all the time for the past few months? We are talking about the same dude who the Hedgehog Report shows losing electorally to Obama with just 85 votes and 6 states, right?

f joy

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 2:44 pm

It’s been a nauseating year having to listen to the GOP candidates and their endless debates, unchallenged lies, attacks and ridiculousness. They have shamed the US on so many levels. So the thought of Sarah Palin co hosting was absurd. Matt Lauer has lost credibility and so has the morning station.The last person I want to see on morning tv or any other time is Sarah Palin! She was one of the main original GOP attackers of the President on a scary extremist level under the guise of being a Christian! Sarah Palin wants to be on camera and perceived as a kingmaker. I wish they would stop giving her airtime but I guess she now has a new on air debut. I think Palin’s rhetoric can be potentially dangerous. Let’s not forget the target map of democratic representatives.

Maple

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 4:41 pm

I didn’t watch the Today Show (I never do) but the more I read about yesterday’s show, and the clips I’ve seen, the more convinced I am that while the NBC brass decided to have Snowdrift Snookie on, the writers and the on-air hosts tried their best to sabotage her in an un-obvious way. Sure, they missed out on some chances to bring her up short, but they did include topics that they figured would prove at least somewhat embarrassing for her — like the difficulties in raising teenage daughters!!!

Spinner

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Beautifully written Jason.

Dan Skinner

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 6:24 pm

I think a bucket of water should take care of her and her flying monkeys.

carole mckinzie

Wed, Apr 4th, 2012 at 10:17 pm

more of your buddy jon…………

gsb

Thu, Apr 5th, 2012 at 9:08 am

I’ve thought this before but have never said it just this way. Sarah is a p-teaser,who shows her nasty side the mi ute she opens her mouth. All the ugly comes out, any beauty seen by some, is no longer there.
Sarah get uglier and uglier each and every time she appears in public.
soon, very soon she will be just an old hag, with memories.
I for one can hardly wait.

Shiva (Moderator)

Thu, Apr 5th, 2012 at 9:34 am

when I first saw Sarah Palin on the stage with John McCain I thought she was a stunner. But looking at her now all of that is gone. And it’s not just her asinine actions or anything else because I am a professional at separating politics and a woman’s beauty. On her newscasts with her foil Sean Hannity she has a hard look to her that takes away any of her beauty. I don’t wish looking like an old hag on any woman because in any woman there is always something you can find to like, but I think she has sold that part of herself for money and fame

jcinco

Fri, Apr 6th, 2012 at 12:41 pm

Superficial, but did her 10 year old pick out her outfit? She seems to lack the ability to know what is appropriate in so many areas. I truly believe Game Change’s portrayal of her as being somewhat mentally unstable is spot on.